| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: over the gate moodily. When he saw the white-faced restless Flora
drifting like a lost thing along the road he put his pipe in his
pocket and called out "Good morning, Miss Smith" in a tone of
amazing happiness. She, with one foot in life and the other in a
nightmare, was at the same time inert and unstable, and very much at
the mercy of sudden impulses. She swerved, came distractedly right
up to the gate and looking straight into his eyes: "I am not Miss
Smith. That's not my name. Don't call me by it."
She was shaking as if in a passion. His eyes expressed nothing; he
only unlatched the gate in silence, grasped her arm and drew her in.
Then closing it with a kick -
Chance |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: Was demed to diverse peine,
The worste that men cowthe ordeigne,
And so forth after be the lawe
He was unto the gibet drawe,
Where he above alle othre hongeth,
As to a tretour it belongeth.
Tho fame with hire swifte wynges
Aboute flyh and bar tidinges,
And made it cowth in alle londes
How that Horestes with hise hondes 2110
Climestre his oghne Moder slowh.
Confessio Amantis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: moustaches which he proceeded to twist, and as if
extend, horizontally.
I might have smiled if I had not been busy with
my own sensations, which were not those of Mr.
Burns. I was already the man in command. My
sensations could not be like those of any other man
on board. In that community I stood, like a king
in his country, in a class all by myself. I mean an
hereditary king, not a mere elected head of a state.
I was brought there to rule by an agency as remote
from the people and as inscrutable almost to them
The Shadow Line |
